By Benjamin Jones, Chief Conservation Officer, Project Seagrass & Research Affiliate, Swansea University
Nicole R Foster, Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Science, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC)
Oscar Serrano, Principal Researcher, Coastal Ecology, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC)
For millennia, humans lived as hunter-gatherers. Savannas and forests are often thought of as the cradle of our lineage, but beneath the waves, a habitat exists that has quietly supported humans for over 180,000 years.
Archaeological evidence suggests that early humans migrated along coasts, avoiding desert and tundra. So, as Homo spread from Africa, they inevitably encountered seagrasses – flowering plants evolved to inhabit shallow coastal environments that form undersea meadows teeming with life.
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By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University
El Salvador’s leader, Nayib Bukele, has cut a deal with Trump to house alleged gang members deported from the US.
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By Fenneke Sysling, Assistant Professor in History of Science, Medicine and Colonialism, Leiden University
It’s hard to imagine now, but people once believed that the bumps on your head could reveal your personality. For one thing, it’s so hard to locate the bumps on your head, let alone the thirty or so bumps the phrenologists said could be discerned. So why was phrenology such an attractive idea for such a long time?
Phrenology was the belief that the brain’s activity could be studied by examining the bumps on the skull, in places where the brain pushed outwards. Phrenologists claimed they could read your personality based on how big different bumps were. Initially, after German physiologist…
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By Moa Wolff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Family Medicine and Community Medicine, Lund University
Anna Stubbendorff, PhD Candidate, Nutrition Epidemiology, Lund University
Teenage girls who avoid meat in favour of a plant-based diet are at higher risk of developing an iron deficiency, according to our latest research.
Our study confirmed that iron deficiency is common among teenage girls, with 38% of participants affected. We also found that risk of iron deficiency was strongly associated with both eating patterns and menstrual blood loss. Girls who reported heavy periods and followed a meat-restricted diet – meaning they were vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian or avoided red meat – had…
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By Trudy Meehan, Lecturer, Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Struggling to get up in the morning? Here are four ways to ditch the grogginess and feel human before breakfast.
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By Shyam Balaji, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Physics, King's College London
Sometimes, looking inward, to the dynamic, glowing centre of our own galaxy, reveals the most unexpected hints of what lies beyond.
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By Bernard Crespi, Professor, Evolutionary Biology, Simon Fraser University
Xingwei (Nancy) Yang, Assistant Professor, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
What are the risks of seemingly innocuous behaviours such as sharing posts, giving likes, making oneself look good in pictures, and, in general, interacting virtually rather than physically?
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump displays a chart with proposed US tariffs at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. © 2025 Samuel Corum/Sipa USA via AP Photo On April 2, US President Donald Trump announced import tariffs – many above 40 percent, on goods from virtually every country – upending the global economy. Although now paused above a baseline 10 percent, except for China, these new tariffs illustrate the danger of pursuing economic reforms without regard for the impact on people’s human rights.The promise to reshape the economy, which was central to…
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By Amy Jo Murray, Social psychologist, University of Johannesburg
Kevin Durrheim, Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
The employment conditions for domestic workers have improved since democracy in 1994. However, some practices from the apartheid era persist.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Australians strongly disagree with key policies of US President Donald Trump, and have overwhelmingly lost trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll.
Despite this, 80% of people say the alliance is “very” or “fairly” important for Australia’s security, only fractionally down on last year’s 83%.
The poll also found people nearly evenly divided on whether Peter Dutton (35%) or Anthony Albanese (34%) would be the better leader to manage Australia’s relations with Trump.
But Albanese rated much more…
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